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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 11, 1976)
'age 6 THE BA I I ALIGN THURSDAY, MAR. 11, 1976 Come To Diamond Country Sankey Park Diamond Salon Tent City 21 3 S MAIN ‘Only institution where students forced to live in tents’ DOWNTOWN BRYAN Engagement Rings ^ Wedding Rings iatnond.s (n \it c(if Mathis Owns Varsity Shop The Varsity Shop, located at 301 Patricia St., in College Sta tion has recently come under the new ownership of Susan Mathis. VARSITY SHOP OFFERS COMPLETE HAIR SERVICE Under the new ownership of Susan Mathis Susan assumed ownership of the shop and moved it from its previous location at 323 Uni versity Dr. in College Station, Feb. 2. “We offer professional per sonalized hair service for men and women, ’’ Susan said adding that the service is “geared to ward contemporary hairstyling for business people and for the family. ” Susan said the salon offers the full range of hair services including hair cutting, curling, coloring and waving, condition ing and corrective treatments. She said both female operators in the salon were trained at the local Charles & Sue’s School of Hair Design in the Pivot Point International method of hair styling. The Varsity Shop is open be tween 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday and offers ample parking for its cus tomers. By JIM PETERS Battalion City Editor Those residents of Hotard Hilton and Milner Manor who complain of the foot-long roaches and peeling paint should have seen Tent City. The canvas town was located on the site now occupied by Law and Puiyear Halls. Covering ten acres, the 243 tents provided rooms for many of the students who attended A&M at the turn of the century. A&M Board President K. K. Legett once said: “This is the only institution in the civilized world where a number of its students are forced to live in tents during the en tire school year.” Besides, Legett said, the cost of repairing the $60 tents was becom ing too prohibitive and new facilities were needed. “Our educational institutions shall not encourage such primitive methods of living, ” Legett said when Photo courtesy University Archives ‘Hollywood” looked much like a POW camp. asking the the governor for $80,000 for new dorms. Thus, in the early 1920s the tents were replaced by 20-foot square wooden shacks soon dubbed “Hol lywood.” Other students lived in the “firep roof’ Legett and Milner Halls which were built in 1911 or other buildings around campus. “Hollywood” was demolished in 1928 to make way for Law and Puryear Halls which intro duced the ramp style of living to Ag gies. Rather than private bathrooms, the residents of each floor shared common showers and commodes. Langford, who was a professor in the architecture department at the time, said his classes were asked to draw up proposed plans for the room design. Final selections were made but never considered by the ar chitects, Langford said. “Every effort was made to obtain the greatest number of rooms at the least possible cost,” Langford wrote. “They are devoid of all the amenities of comfortable living. ” Hotard Hall was also erected dur ing this period for the workers in Sbisa Dining Hall. It was named after J. C. Hotard, supervisor of the workers. No new dorms were built on cam pus again until 1965 when five balcony-style buildings were erected. In the 1970s the country- club style units of Krueger, Dunn, Aston and Mosher were added. Ramp-style dorms werenewin! geniies ■incil) Four rooms were located on each floor of the individual ramps. A pair of rooms shared a bathroom suite as in the modern dorms today. The ramp set-up at A&M was hailed as the latest trend in campus dorm design and two others, Walton and Hart, were soon constructed in the same style. . . Staff photo by Douglas Winship Hotard Hall was built to house Sbisa workers. ' II NOW COMES The practice was abandoned in 1939, however, when $2.5 million was appropriated for construction of 16 low-cost dormitories. These dorms. The Corps of Cadets living area and the North Dorm area, are dull, box-like structures “which dis regard all the amenities found in stu dent housing,” said Ernest Langford in his book on A&M Archtiecture, “Here We ll Build The College.” Photo courtesy University Into It’s not a campout, it’s a dorm area a la 1908. THE POWER LINE FROM SANSUI. HoustCLeaHiMG, ON CAMPUS MARCH 22-25 SIGN UP NOW FOR AN INTERVIEW 10TH FLOOR RUDDER TOWER ALLEN Oldsmobile Cadillac SALES-SERVICE “U here satisfactions sta n da rd equ ip menf 2401 Texas Ave. 823-8002 Si . . = 771 * ... * .V-j * * / 4, ■ 4k- iiS 551 It£n\S? 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